I just knew that if I procrastinated long enough on buying a Flickr pro membership that sooner or later they would improve the service so much that I would no longer desire any paid upgrades! A Ha! That day has finally  arrived!

P.S. How insane are they to give FREE accounts a whopping terabyte of storage space?! It’s insanely AWESOME.

So I kinda got gifted a mega ton of Bath and Body Works products for Mother’s Day: 6 body lotions, 5 bubble baths, a shower gel, a body scrub, a bath loofah, and 3 body sprays. Oh, and a Bath and Body Works tote bag too!  WHOA!

My husband has been playing this game on his ipad for a while, and eventually he talked me in to installing on my ipad and playing along too! It’s pretty addicting!

I love that “The Simpons Tapped Out” is FREE to install and play (always love that!) and it reminds me a little bit of playing Farmville (remember that game? hah) in that you can visit your friend’s towns, and you start tasks to earn money and then have to keep coming back and finishing the tasks and starting new ones again.

Here’s a few game tips: Add lots of friends (check out this site and this one for loads of friends to add!), Build as many brown houses as you can afford in the beginning (I currently have over 50) because they are good money makers, and make sure to expand your land in the beginning too because a) it’s cheap and b) you’ll need somewhere to put all those houses, and c)you’ll need that money later to be able to complete tasks in the higher levels!

Lastly add us as friends! Me = “msjennb” and Hubby = “Experza” – HAVE FUN!

We live like 2 streets away from a 7-Eleven; I love getting coupons for free stuff from them!

My favorite snack lately — cucumber slices and sweet pepper slices with ranch dressing to dip them in:

Those two ducks again.. in our front yard:

A Betty Crocker peanut butter cookie that I made last week:

The peanut butter cookie dough (from above):

I’ve been wanting to try harder at taking more pictures of “everyday life”, capturing those little details. I’ll keep trying!

I love finding new places online to listen to music for absolutely free! I’ve been using rdio.com for a couple of months now, at first it was really confusing and I thought that you had to purchase a subscription (it was really hard to see anywhere on the site where you can just sign up for free! errgh! you do need a subscription if you’re going to be listening via a mobile device though) and then after I figured that out.. then I didn’t want to use it very often because I thought it couldn’t scrobble the songs that I played to my last.fm profile. Boy, was I ever glad when I found out that wasn’t the case!

Rdio.com is great for listening to full albums, even brand new ones like Justin Timberlake’s “the 20/20 Experience” (even the deluxe edition! say what?!) for free and I love that it will scrobble to last.fm too! Love it!

P.S. – To scrobble to last.fm, go into settings and click on “external” and you can connect your last.fm profile right there!

Oh my goodness, does that bring back memories for anyone else? I was a huge *NSYNC fan for a lot of years, my passion for them has been slowly dying out as the years go by.. but if they ever got back together and go on tour and stuff I would totally be all over that! Haha.. Happy memories. Found this through instagram, but I have no idea where it came from originally, it’s probably been floating around the internet for years!

I just got a surprise goody package in the mail from one of my friends!! SO HAPPY! It’s from a friend that I haven’t talked to in a few months, so it was a really nice surprise to know that she hasn’t forgotten about me It literally just came in the mail, so I’m going to get on facebook as soon as I get this posted and tell her a big thank you!

When is the last time you got something in the mail from a friend?

I found (and bought!) a glass nail file on clearance this morning at the local drugstore, I loooove glass nail files! We have one at the house that we have had for years and have been wanting another one because we like it so much! I highly recommend you get yourself a glass nail file if you don’t have one already! They last forever and there’s no danger of splicing your finger open with one either (which is what I really like about it!) so yeah, buy one.

Anyway, on to my current beauty wishlist!

Revlon lip butter.. not sure which color I would pick first!

Sally Hansen gel manicure kit.. would love to try this! (in maybe a pink color?!)

Sunscreen… I want to try that Coppertone face sunscreen especially! I really need to get in the habit of wearing sunscreen every day!

Gradual Self Tanning Lotion.. Don’t know which! Jergens, Dove, Coppertone? Tan = Good thing.

(Image Sources: lip butter, gel polish, sunscreen, tanning lotion)

What’s on your current beauty wishlist? Are there any products that you love and would recommend? Please share!

If I was thinking about relocating my family I might have to check out staffing agencies in Jacksonville; my sister and her family lived in Jacksonville, Florida for quite a few years! I went down there once to visit, and it’s a big city that’s close to the beach.. how can you go wrong? Although, I’m not sure that it’s one of the safest places in the world to live, but how many places are truly 100% safe, right? At least you’d be close to the beach! lol.

I think my family is relatively safe where we are living right now, I’m not thinking of moving to a different city any time soon. Although, if more of this crazy stuff keeps happening.. and happens a lot closer to where I live, then I would definitely consider moving!

I’d really like to go back home and be with my family for my birthday this year, because that’s where all my friends are and I haven’t seen anyone from that area in almost 2 years already! At this point, that would be the ultimate birthday wish for me, and honestly, it wouldn’t take all that much to make it happen! Although, money is an issue right now so I probably wouldn’t be able to have a huge party with a rented out place for the event (booo!) but I would love to be able to spend some time with my family and friends that I haven’t seen in forever!

Even if it was just a smaller party at someone’s house or a restaurant — it would be so much fun to rent a photo booth (like the ones from Capture Pod!) for the occasion! Of course everyone would have to dress up and we’d have all sorts of silly props to use in the photo booth; I think it would be so much fun! I know that I would definitely treasure those photos for a long time!

So I did some research online and discovered that eating a diet of low carbohydrate foods can result in increased energy (!!),  decreased cravings for sweets (what? I have such a sugar addiction!), and better mental concentration!  Amazing! I have been noticing a lack of mental concentration pretty much ever since I gave birth to my son over 5 years ago;  I have trouble focusing on things and if it gets too frustrating or a little bit complicated, then I’m more likely to just give up than to actually finish. I haven’t always been that way!

I’m definitely going to try eating more low-carb foods and see if that improves things for me!